The Tech Report has posted a review on NVIDIA´s GeForce3
I´M ABOUT HALF READY TO proclaim that since the introduction of the TNT graphics chip way back when, NVIDIA has held a virtually uninterrupted technology lead in the consumer graphics market. From time to time, competitors have introduced chips equal to the corresponding NVIDIA products, but nothing really surpassing them.Read more
NVIDIA´s position has only gotten stronger since the TNT chip. The GeForce series of chips—extending up into the high end with the Ultra and Quadro lines, and down into the value market with the MX line—has devastated the competition. Since the introduction of the first GeForce chip, S3 has spun away, Matrox has dug safely into its niche markets, and 3dfx finally conceded defeat, selling out to NVIDIA. ATI remains standing, but it´s not clear whether the company is gathering its strength for a renewed attack, or waiting wobbily for its knock-out punch—probably some combination of the two.
